10 Absolute Worst Places to Live In Yorkshire
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Nearly a third of everyone in Yorkshire now lives inside an officially deprived neighbourhood. One town alone carries 85% of an entire county's hardship. Men in some wards die eleven years earlier than men just a few streets away. These are the ten places the government's own 2025 data says are failing hardest — and the worst of them was once branded the most depressed region in the entire European Union.
In this video, we explore:
→ Eastfield in Scarborough ranks in the bottom 1% of neighbourhoods nationally, where men die eleven years earlier than in the town's wealthiest wards.
→ Grimethorpe logged fifty-four crime incidents in a single month in 2025, three decades after the colliery that built the village shut for good in 1993.
→ Bradford has sat as England's twelfth most deprived local authority since 2007, with 37% of its neighbourhoods now stuck in the bottom tenth of the country.
→ Bransholme was engineered from scratch as a postwar cure for slum clearance — and still isn't even the most deprived ward in its own city.
→ Dewsbury's crime figures are falling, yet a shoe repair shop that survived twenty-six years just closed its shutters for good anyway.
→ Harehills made national news when a double-decker bus burned in the street in July 2024, years after the data had already flagged 74% household deprivation.
→ Rotherham's steel-built streets now rank 43rd out of 296 local authorities, filed in the same government bracket as Hastings.
→ A single Doncaster neighbourhood ranks 808th out of nearly 34,000 across England, with no riot and no closure to explain the slide.
→ Hull's Orchard Park logged over a hundred incidents of violence and sexual offences in just one month, on an estate built to rehouse families from the slums.
→ And at number one: a coal town where the pit shut in 1993, the slag heap became a park, and the people never recovered at the same rate.
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A Saturday afternoon, only football fans around at the pubs, and very few shops open (majority closed or shut down). No shoppers.
The few high street names that Rotherham has, are at Parkgate, and other regular high street names you'd find in smaller towns don't even exist in Rotherham as a whole!
I thought large parts of Bradford were dreadful, but Rotherham is worse.
Along with parts of Kirklees, as what what I've seen of Dewsbury and Ravensthorpe, just run down and abandoned. Urbexers' paradise!
It isn't surprising to realise that these places I've mentioned were until very recently, strong Labour party areas.
The Labour party truly despise the poor. Labour are not for the working classes.
Socialism does not work for the poor and deprived.
A social pot with limited amounts put in by the poor and deprived (via taxes) will never build wealth. It's constrained.
Repairs/upkeep of public areas aren't ever paid for because of the limited amount of money that's spent on the very few, new, over-priced projects or wasted on politicians/councillors.
If independently-owned businesses (weren't penalised and taxed to the hilt by central government), could compete against other businesses, that would bring in more money, more jobs become available, prices would lower through competition, there'd be more shoppers (in person and online), more visitors (to areas like revitalised brownfield sites / former colliery areas as country parks, lakes, etc) which overall builds wealth and growth, and relieves deprivation.
People also have to learn to look after what they have, and not trash it, and that too would help reduce deprivation!
Luckily i live right on the outskirts of the BD postcode now, you couldn't pay me enough to live anywhere near the city centre or the surrounding area.
It is a bit rough but if you can handle yourself, you’ll be alright 😂👍
10 Absolute Worst Places to Live In Yorkshire
Deserted UK
16,108 views
Nearly a third of everyone in Yorkshire now lives inside an officially deprived neighbourhood. One town alone carries 85% of an entire county's hardship. Men in some wards die eleven years earlier than men just a few streets away. These are the ten places the government's own 2025 data says are failing hardest — and the worst of them was once branded the most depressed region in the entire European Union.
In this video, we explore:
→ Eastfield in Scarborough ranks in the bottom 1% of neighbourhoods nationally, where men die eleven years earlier than in the town's wealthiest wards.
→ Grimethorpe logged fifty-four crime incidents in a single month in 2025, three decades after the colliery that built the village shut for good in 1993.
→ Bradford has sat as England's twelfth most deprived local authority since 2007, with 37% of its neighbourhoods now stuck in the bottom tenth of the country.
→ Bransholme was engineered from scratch as a postwar cure for slum clearance — and still isn't even the most deprived ward in its own city.
→ Dewsbury's crime figures are falling, yet a shoe repair shop that survived twenty-six years just closed its shutters for good anyway.
→ Harehills made national news when a double-decker bus burned in the street in July 2024, years after the data had already flagged 74% household deprivation.
→ Rotherham's steel-built streets now rank 43rd out of 296 local authorities, filed in the same government bracket as Hastings.
→ A single Doncaster neighbourhood ranks 808th out of nearly 34,000 across England, with no riot and no closure to explain the slide.
→ Hull's Orchard Park logged over a hundred incidents of violence and sexual offences in just one month, on an estate built to rehouse families from the slums.
→ And at number one: a coal town where the pit shut in 1993, the slag heap became a park, and the people never recovered at the same rate.
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